that backed the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Of all the
scares about the rise of fascist anti-Semitism in Europe, no leader
ever mentions the fascists in Ukraine – except Vladimir Putin, but he
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does not count.
Many in the Western media have worked hard to present the ethnic
Russian-speaking population of Ukraine as outsiders in their own
country, as agents of Moscow, almost never as Ukrainians seeking a
federation within Ukraine and as Ukrainian citizens resisting a
foreign-orchestrated coup against their elected government.
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There is almost the joie d'esprit of a class reunion of warmongers.
The drum-beaters of the Washington Post inciting war with Russia
are the very same editorial writers who published the lie that Saddam
This is adapted from an address to the Sheffield Festival of Words, Sheffield, England.
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Australian-born John Pilger is a multi-award winning journalist and documentary film maker. On November 4, 2014, John Pilger received the Sydney Peace Prize, Australia’s international human rights award. A Secret Country, his best-selling history of Australia published 20 years ago, remains in print (Vintage Books).